Alaka M. Basu

I am a Maharashtrian married to someone from outside the state. As a feminist, I have occasionally wondered if I should not have kept my maiden name when I got married, even if that would not take my feminist credentials very far, my maiden name bein

There is a strange man who seems to get my itinerary even before I do and manages to buy a ticket to not only travel on the same plane or train or bus as me, but to also get assigned a seat very close to mine...

When, instead of independence and autonomy, what a child in a typical primary school learns are the virtues of obedience, discipline and routine, not the idea of actually making choices, or questioning the norm...